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IAE closes in on order for V2500 turbofans from SALE
SINGAPORE AIRCRAFT Leasing Enterprise (SALE) is understood to be close to finalising a deal with International Aero Engines (IAE) for V2500 turbofans to power its planned fleet of 24 Airbus A320/A321s. SALE has selected the V2500 over the rival CFM International CFM56-5. The Singapore Airlines/Boullion Aviation Services joint-venture ...
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Air Portugal selects Airbus for short-haul fleet replacement
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON TAP AIR PORTUGAL has selected Airbus Industrie to supply its future short-haul fleet, which will eventually make it an all-Airbus operator. The airline is to bolster its Airbus single-aisle fleet with at least 22 more aircraft, a mix of A319s and A320s. Airbus says ...
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US Safety Board examines TWA fuel probes
INVESTIGATORS SAY that two fuel probes recovered from the site of the crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 show no signs of electrical arcing which could have caused the centre fuel-tank explosion which brought down the Boeing 747-100 on 17 July, killing 230 people. One of the ...
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Air Canada sets sights on ValuJet DC-9 work
Air Canada has resumed discussions with ValuJet Airlines on maintaining the low-cost carrier's fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. Talks lapsed when Atlanta, Georgia-based ValuJet was grounded in June following the May crash of a DC-9 in Florida, but resumed after the airline restarted operations in September. The work ...
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Fuel-surcharge fears increase
Concern is growing, that airlines may soon be forced to start imposing a fuel surcharge on ticket prices, to offset the damage being done by soaring world oil prices. Over the past few months, crude oil prices have been running at their highest levels since the Gulf crisis ...
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Japanese airlines report mixed results
A combination of higher fuel charges, a weaker yen and increased passenger traffic have produced mixed financial results for Japan's three largest airlines for the first six months of their latest financial years. Net profits slumped by more than 71% at Japan Airlines (JAL), to nearly ´2.7 billion ...
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Style differences cost Lanese MDC job
GrahamWarwick/ATLANTA McDonnell Douglas (MDC) president Harry Stonecipher cites "sharp differences" in management style as his reason for firing Herb Lanese, president of the McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (MDA) military-aircraft group, on 25 October. The move was a surprise inside MDC as well as to outsiders. As ...
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IATA attacks US DoT on passenger liability
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is again at loggerheads with the US Department of Transportation (DoT) over the issue of passenger-liability limits, describing new US proposals as "unlawful and unwise". IATA appeared to have reached a truce with the DoT in mid-year when it produced a new ...
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PAL offers staff shares
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has offered its workforce shares worth 477 million pesos ($18 million), which represents nearly 5% of the carrier. The move is part of a recently approved effort to double PAL's capitalisation from its current 5 billion pesos, and follows the decision by state-owned financial institutions and minority ...
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SIA's results disappoint
Financial analysts have begun to revise down their year-end profit forecasts for Singapore Airlines (SIA), in the face of weak first-half results which showed the impact of rising fuel prices, declining yields and the strength of the local Singapore dollar. The carrier's operating profit for the first six ...
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US airlines break records again, but fear for the future
The major US airlines produced another record-breaking performance in the third quarter, but profits were marred by growing fears that this may now be the peak of the cycle, with rising fuel prices and re-imposition of the federal fuel tax promising to dampen the boom. Trans World Airlines ...
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Baffled at such a waste of money
Sir - Having read the article "Executive Jet orders Netjets Gulfstreams (Flight International, 16-22 October, P24), I am at a loss to understand who would want to part with such a vast amount of money to take a share in aircraft already available on the open charter market. ...
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The long march
China faces a massive bill upgrading ATC leverage. It is now looking to CNS/ATM to provide a more affordable solution. Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE China represents one of the fastest-growing air-transport markets in the world and, given the country's large, rapidly prospering, population, it has the potential ...
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Forging new bonds
China has upgraded and restructured its aerospace industry and is attracting new international production partners Paul Lewis/BEIJING China's modern-day aerospace industry can be traced to 1951 and the establishment of the first state-run factory at Nanchang. It has gone on to produce more than 10,000 ...
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Dollars and sense
At last year's Paris air show, McDonnell Douglas (MDC) chief executive Harry Stonecipher was telling the world: "I don't care if we never launch a new aircraft", and that if his company was not already in the civil airliner business, it would be trying to get into it. Last week ...
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USAF cuts back B-2 flight-testing to meet deadline and save costs
Flight testing of the Northrop Grumman B-2 has been scaled back in a bid to meet a 1 July 1997 deadline to complete tests and avoid increased costs. Testing devoted to armament, offensive and defensive avionics, low-level terrain following and surface-to-air missile avoidance has been reduced. The revised ...
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Croatia orders Bell 206B-3 JetRangers
Croatia has ordered ten Bell 206B-3 JetRangers, worth $15 million with training and support, for initial-entry helicopter pilot training in its air force. The deal is the first major aircraft purchase by Croatia since the signing of the US-brokered Dayton peace agreement on Bosnia. Pilot and maintenance training ...
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Austria evaluates F-16 and F-18
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA An Austrian air force team has visited the USA to evaluate the Lockheed Martin F-16C/D and McDonnell Douglas F-18C/D as it prepares for a fighter competition expected to get under way in 1997. Evaluation of aircraft, including in-country demonstrations, is expected to be complete by ...
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Turkey issues RFP for F-5 avionics-upgrade plans
Tony Gill/WASHINGTON DC Turkey has issued a new request for proposals (RFP) for an avionics modernisation of its Northrop F-5s. A separate, but interdependent F-5 structural upgrade, to be performed by the Turkish air force and local industry, makes up the remainder of a programme to update ...
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Rafael reveals ramjet work
Douglas Barrie/LONDON Rafael of Israel is working on the design of ramjet-missile power plants, with test launches having already been carried out. The programme feeds into projects now in the development stages. The state-owned group's Manor Propulsion and Explosive Systems division has tested an annular-intake ...